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[Veritas-bu] Hardware Recommendations for new setup

2007-05-07 09:23:25
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Hardware Recommendations for new setup
From: austin.murphy at gmail.com (Austin Murphy)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 09:23:25 -0400
On 5/4/07, Conner, Neil <neil at mbari.org> wrote:

> Both come with 73GB disks, but the v240 are SCSI and the T2000 SATA.  What's 
> the performance penalty for SATA?

The T2000 drives are SAS, Serial Attached SCSI.
http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t2000/specs.xml

SAS is similar to SATA.  Both use the same physical link, but SAS adds
the SCSI command set and there are some other differences.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Attached_SCSI

Austin

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